Rebar fracture in boundary elements of lightly reinforced shear walls in recent earthquake motivated research on the minimum longitudinal reinforcement applicable to shear walls. These researches lead to change in the ACI 318-19 requirement for minimum longitudinal reinforcement in boundary elements. New ACI 318 requirement increase minimum longitudinal reinforcement ratio for boundary elements...

In the finite element analysis that deals with large deformation, the process usually produces distorted elements at the later stages of the analysis. These distorted elements lead to analysis problems, such as inaccurate solutions, slow convergence and premature termination of the analysis. This paper proposes a new mesh generation algorithm to mesh the input part for pure Lagrangian analysis,...

The coupling of boundary elements and finite elements is of great importance for the numerical treatment of boundary value problems posed on unbounded domains. It permits us to combine the advantages of boundary elements for treating domains extended to infinity with those of finite elements in treating the complicated bounded domains. The standard procedure of coupling the boundary element and...

This paper introduces a new fixed mesh structural analysis technique based on isoparametric formulations from classic finite element analysis. Fixed mesh methods are popular in boundary based optimisation as they avoid mesh distortion problems and reanalysis is simple and efficient. The area ratio based fixed grid method is often employed due to its favourable simplicity in implementation. Howe...

The approximation of parabolic equations with nonhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary data by a numerical method that consists of finite elements for the space discretization and the backward Euler time discretization is studied. The boundary values are assumed in a least squares sense. It is shown that this method achieves an optimal rate of convergence for rough (only L1) boundary data and for smoo...

A general adaptive element subdivision technique is presented for the numerical evaluation of weakly singular integrals, which often appear in three-dimensional boundary element analysis equations. In this algorithm, the weakly singular boundary element is broken up into a few sub-elements through a sphere of decreasing radius. The sub-elements involving the singular point are evaluated numeric...